Dailies 06 3/22/2013 : Ben's Notes

Notes:

• Add neck reaction to head tilt
• I like that you took out the spit. It's less distracting. :)
• Add keep alive frame throughout
• Tweak Camella eye shapes
• Add stagger to the tip of the tongue
• Use the fill color for the brush stroke on the tongue to the bottom of Jamal's mouth when it's open. 
• Nice hair settle
• Like how you did the chew.  It's great that you can feel the flesh around his eyes. 

The next shot for you is Sleep_02_01_BA01.

It's the shot we spoke about that Asia in-betweened. 

Add those extra frames according to the timing charts on the tie-down layer, then go ahead and clean-up.

Sleepless ftp -> 03_CleanUpScenes -> Sleepless_Seq02 -> Sleep_02_01_BA01

Dailies 06 3/22/2013 : Asia's Notes

Blogger won't let me upload videos today.  :(

Notes:
Fix the fin
Fix the mouth-line
Don't worry about the cheek hair this time.

Nice work on the fish and going with a larger pencil width for when Jamal gets super close to the camera.

Your next shot is Sleep_03_05.  You can download the folder at:
Sleepless ftp -> 03_CleanUpScenes -> Sleepless_Seq03 -> Sleep_03_05_JAS01

Nice job of adding the tie-down in-betweens on Sleep_02_01.  :)

Dailies 06 3/22/2013 : Andriy's Notes

Notes:
Add in-betweens to any drawing on 4's
Vickner note: have the water going up past the neck into the body a bit more visibly.
For future reference, be careful about changing the shape of the feet

Nice work on maintaining the shape of the hair on top of the hump and on the smaller details as Jamal get's larger.

Let me know when the updated version of 5_05 is uploaded to the ftp.  I'm working on updating the working reel this weekend.  :)

Blinky Color Map

Dailies 04 3/8/2013 : Joanna Shim's Notes

Notes:

• I like how you've cleaned up Camella in the distance.  
• It looks like Camella's eyebrows are a different blue on frame 50.  If it's the cleaned-up line, make sure to use the appropriate color swatches from the 'Character Color Map'.  found Here.  I can see you're using the correct colors for the outlines of Camella and Jamal, but figured I'd mention it anyway. 
• Keep it up.  I have a feeling you don't need to be as tidy with your linework. It's super clean, but challenge yourself to be a little faster and it's ok if it's little messier because of it. 

Looking forward to seeing it next week.  :)  

Dailies 04 3/8/2013 : Asia's Notes

Notes:

• Redraw the last frame at least 3 times, then loop them on 2's. Keep's the character alive in a held-pose. 
• Same thing for the hand holding the head prior to the head being dropped into the water.
• We didn't talk about this at the dailies, but once the main head comes to a stop, can you add some secondary action on the beard? So when the head hits it's held-pose at frame 124, the beard continues moving to the position on, say, frame 130.  If that doesn't make sense, let me know and I can explain it more thoroughly.
• I really like how you used a thicker line-weight as Jamal got closer to the camera.  :) Nice detail.

Great work so far! This weekend I'll tie-down Blinky, the fish.

 I know that this one isn't the final, final version but.....  FINAL!
*I'll edit the post once I get the other version.

Dailies 04 3/8/2013 : Andriy's Notes

Notes:

• I like the changes that were made to the hair 'poofs'.
• In your old version, I liked how Jamal inhales, then exhales. Put that back in. 
• I also like that you tried to be more sensitive to line-weight.  Keep doing that.
• She's definitely looking at him more now at the end which is good. 
• There are still some issues with Camella's face but I'll go into the shot and tweak the key frames myself once you finish coloring the shot. 

Finish coloring the shot, then you can get started on the next one.
The first couple shots always take the longest because we're getting into a groove. 

* This was the only version of this shot on the ftp that I could find, although I know you've done a second pass on it since this one doesn't have toenails.  

Tonight, can you upload your folder for this shot as well? I'll edit this post once I see the new version.

Dailies 04 3/8/2013 : Josh's Notes

Notes:

• Great job on Camella.  Love the redrawn frames when she's in a hold. Keeps her alive.
• I'm going to tweak some of the frames on the hit on Jamal's head as well as tweak Jamal's body.

Nice job on this shot even though I hadn't tied it down. The next shot should be a lot of fun. Let me know if you have any questions on that one.

Josh's next shot.

Dailies 04 3/8/2013: Ben's Notes

Notes:

• Careful of the connection point of the neck to the base of the head.  
• You can add a bit of settle into the nose
• Beth suggestion: When adding the hair, roughly animate it as an entire shape, then add additional details afterwards.  Don't worry about the individual hair spikes moving independently from eachother.
• Make sure the intersection of the hump to the base of the body stays consistent. 
• Try adding some 'stutter' frames to the feet at the apex of the yawn. (not sure what to call them?)
• Give Camella a non-distracting blink to help keep her alive at the end of the shot.

FINAL!

FINAL!

Great work this week.  I'll let you know when I have the first shot for you to in-between.  :)

Character Packet Images

Even though these are all on the ftp in the 'Sleepless_CharacterModelPacket.pdf',
figured I'd post them here for convenience.

Sequence 3 Compilation

I just cut all of these together in a single quicktime window.  The thing to keep in mind is that the only thing we'll be taking from your shots is the animation.  When we composite the shots together there will be backgrounds that change color and the moon will travel across the sky depending on the time of night.

 
What do you guys think / see?

It looks like we have some scaling issues which I was expecting.
I think the most notable one is in 03_07. 

Shot Handout: 01, for realzies.

All of the scene files (except for Joanna Shim's) have been uploaded onto the Sleepless FTP.
In case you have forgotten the account password info, the post can be found HERE.

Sleepless ftp -> o3_CleanUpScenes -> Sleepless_Seq03 -> your shot assignment

Below are some low-rez quicktimes of the tied-down shots.  The name above each shots is the clean-up artist responsible for that shot this week.

Josh Dresner: Sleep_03_07_JD01

Ben Arthur: Sleep_03_03_BA01

Joanna Stopyra: Sleep_03_06_JS01

Andriy Muzychenko: Sleep_03_02_AM01

Dailies 01: Turn In

The resolution on the blogger video is rather low so I'm trying to decide how to post these...  Vimeo maybe?  Any suggestions.

In any case, all of the tests are up on the ftp.
Without further ado:

Ben Arthur

 Joanna Stopyra

Andriy Muzychenko

Josh Dresner

Joanna Shim

Lauren Kvalheim

Dailies 01: First official clean-up dailies!

Attended:  Michael Vickner, Ben Arthur, Josh Dresner, Joanna Shim

Hi Everyone, 

It looks like we're getting off to a great start. Nice work everyone!  Seriously, nice way to kick it off.  :) 

An additional nice surprise is that Joanna Shim will be joining the clean-up team as well.  (Joanna Stopyra and Joanna Shim, would you guys happen to have nicknames you prefer?)

We started off by looking over all the test shots.  The best thing for me was that by looking at everyone's shots, I think we're all going to work really well together.  I'll upload everyone's animation tests onto the blog as well as the ftp. 

The main points discussed were:

• I'm going to update the character packet on the ftp to include detailed information about the number of hair puffs and hair spikes on both Camella and Jamal.

• Make sure everyone is clear on which pencil colors to use for each part of the character (putting together a video demo)

• Make sure everyone is clear on how to use the fill color & close their vector lines as well as some other tidbits. (putting together a video demo)

• Pencil thickness:  min: 0, max: 7. In terms of line weight, Ben's line-weight was really nice in terms of thick-to-thin and consistency.  Josh's test had line-weight that was a little too heavy in parts.  If anyone is having trouble going too thick, just give it a slightly smaller max brush size (maybe a 5 instead of a 7).  Ben was given some tweaks to his test shot and asked to final it.

• Joanna Stopyra's test has nice line-work, we just need to fix some vector intersections.
• Andriy's test has nice line-work and we need to work on vector intersections and fill colors.  
• Joanna Shim's test had some really nice ear shapes.

• The overall final look is reminiscent of cell-painted animation which is a good direction to be going in. 

• You don't need to use the same exact number of layers for the clean-up as was used in the tie-down.  Do whatever you need to, to get the final layered look you want. 

• By tomorrow I will try to have everyone's shot to clean-up for this week up on the ftp.  I will email everyone individually when their shot is ready to go. I've already handed off shots to Josh and Ben.  

• If anyone finishes their shot with time to spare this week, let me know, and I will give you another shot to work on.  

Those were the main points that I can recall.  

Awesome sauce!  Ultimately, I'd like to attempt to have this film done by May.  True, it's a lot of work, but it would be great to have a final, finished product at the end of the semester before everyone separates for the summer.  Momentum is a powerful thing.  Then we can figure out which film festivals to submit it to and everyone can add it to their reels and resumes. woo-hoo!

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask.  See you next week! ~ Lauren

First assignment uploaded to the FTP

Took me a little longer to set everything up than anticipated but it looks like things are working now.

Access the ftp server using the log-in info I posted HERE.
Go ahead and download:
Sleepless_CleanUpTest.zip  &  the 'CleanUpTest_Resources' Folder.

They can be found in the '03_CleanUpScenes' folder.    

If you look around the ftp, I uploaded an updated character packet with the color map included as well as some Toon Boom shortcuts I find helpful.  In addition, there are some other production-related odds and ends on there that I thought were relevant.

FTP (file transfer protocol) Access

FTP Account Info:
FTP Server:     laurenkvalheim.com
User name:      sleepless@laurenkvalheim.com
Password:        sleepycamel

FTP is short for 'File Transfer Protocol'.
It's really just a way to say that you're transferring data to and from a host server.  To connect to the server, your computer needs to have an internet connection although we won't be using any browsers.
I took some screen grabs to walk the PC users through how to access the ftp server.

To start:
Go to your 'Computer'.

In the pathway at the top
Type in:        ftp://laurenkvalheim.com
Hit 'Enter'.

Input the Account info, in this case:
User name:      sleepless@laurenkvalheim.com
Password:        sleepycamel
Hit: 'Enter'

Voila!  You now have access to the Sleepless Clean-up Resource Folder.

This is where I'll be storing files for the group that can be accessed via internet.  When we have the network account at the school, I'll set up that as well since downloading files from the internet can be tedious.

Color development

These are a bit old, but thought it may be of interest.  Lynisha Perkins has been handpainting these gouache paint on black board color thumbnails. The image quality isn't that great because they were just some images snapped with a smartphone camera at one of our meetings but you get the idea. She's been doing a great job dealing with my odd requests.